Yesterday didn't go quite as planned for me and not at all for Darryl.
My friend and I were going to ride out to see if we could find the Cannonball Run, but his bike was having trouble on the way to my place and he ended up taking it to our mechanic. They worked for an hour trying to figure out why it was missing, but it wasn't to be. So, I picked him up in my car and we took off to Hwy 1 to see if we could find them.
It was a fantastically beautiful day, but no sign of any vintage bikes. I guess they went a different way to go inland. Darn. So we headed back and went to Cotati to Michael's Harle- Davidson where they were finishing up the day. They had it set up great with all the vintage bikes right at the front. We made our way to the back where the cars were parked and actually found a place to park. Lots of people everywhere.
There were all these wonderful vintage bikes that made it all the way from New York. Henderson, BSA, BMW, Harley-Davidson, Indian, and some I wasn't sure of. I've got pictures.
But I was only seeing 2 BMW's. And neither were Darryl's. We were talking with one of the Cannonball Riders and I mentioned that we were looking for him. He said "He crashed. Up on the Avenue of the Giants." At that point I was hardly hearing what he said, except that he's okay except for a broken ankle. Seems that he was leaned over in a curve and caught the foot board which sent the bike down a hill. He stayed up on the top but the bike went down and was caught by a tree.
OMG!!! I was completely caught by surprise with this news. He said that he was scraping his foot boards (I'm not sure if this is the right term) too and decided to slow down a bit and talked with others who did the same.
Now, this is all hearsay. Until Darryl actually posts his story we won't know for sure what happened. I'm sure this is true though as these guys would definitely keep each other updated if anything happened to any of them. And I did check the stats for the Cannonball Run this morning. It shows Darryl having completed 79 miles. That would be just about right.
On a more upbeat note, I did get a bunch of pictures. I will get them posted after I get them downloaded from the camera.
I'll be thinking of Darryl and wishing the best for him until we hear from him.
